Highlights of the Exhibition
The Elizabeth Perkins Prothro Bible Collection
at
Bridwell
Library
1996-2006
September 7-November 18, 2006
The Doves Press Bible
The English Bible Containing the Old Testament & the New. 5 vols. London: Doves Press, 1903-05.
Critics generally consider the Doves Bible to be the masterpiece of the Doves Press was published in five volumes 1903-1905. Each volume of the Bible contains a large number of hand-lettered initials and represents a happy union of outstanding calligraphy and equally outstanding typography. The Press produced the Bible one volume at a time, for subscribers who paid in advance, and committed to the purchase of all five volumes. The print run sold out by the time printing ended. As soon as Walker and Cobden-Sanderson issued volume five in June 1905 they announced that the Doves Bible, like all other previous Doves Press editions, was out of print
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